The Arizona Senate passed Senate Bill (SB) 1212 on Tuesday, which would end the practice of giving financial incentives to doctors to provide vaccines. It will prohibit insurance companies and Medicaid from reimbursing physicians at different rates based on whether patients refuse one or more vaccines. The bill was proposed to help children, since some pediatricians state that they will not treat unvaccinated children.
SB 1212 was sponsored by Sen. Janae Shamp (R-Surprise), who lost her job as a registered nurse because she refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr., who founded Children’s Health Defense (CHD) said during an interview with Tucker Carlson that there are “perverse incentives” for pediatricians to push vaccines. CHD CEO Mary Holland told OAN that vaccine incentives for pediatricians have “COMPLETELY distorted pediatric care.” She said, “A pediatrician with a large practice of thousands of children in it can earn hundreds of thousands of dollars, really serious money, by having a 90% or a 95% uptake rate.”
Kennedy has been outspoken about vaccines for children, believing some of them are problematic. “None of the vaccines the CDC recommends for routine injection into children were licensed by the FDA based on a long-term placebo-controlled trial,” he posted on X in 2024.
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